Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 2 | According to Madonna , ‘ I always wanted to be a movie star . |
| 3 | Noel Blake summed up the general view : ‘ I always wanted to be a footballer ; there was never anything else . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 5 | So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here . |
| 6 | ‘ I started writing scripts when I was fifteen , ’ he said , ‘ and I always wanted to be a serious writer . |
| 7 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 8 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 9 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 10 | I fully intended to be a professional golfer . |
| 11 | I never asked to be a witch 's daughter . ’ |
| 12 | But Mr Essex , who plays piano and double bass , said : ‘ I never wanted to be a performing musician . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I never claimed to be an experienced sailor . |
| 14 | I never aimed to be an independent , career-woman type , but on being jerked into it by Simon 's death I 've had to become one . |